An Analysis of Physician Productivity and Self-Sustaining Revenue Generation in a Free-Standing Emergency Department Medical Scribe Model

Table 1

(a)

	Total days	Total patients treated	Patients treated per day	Arrival-to-MEI (minutes)
Scribe shifts	338	11,637	34.42	39.90
Nonscribe shifts	174	3,803	21.86	42.64
Differences	164 days	7834 patients	12.56 patients	−2.74 minutes

(b)

Scribe?	Gender
	Male	Female
No	37%	63%
Yes	37%	63%

(c)

Scribe?	Age
	0–10	10–20	20–30	30–40	40–50	50–60	60–70	70–80	80–90	90–100	>100	NA
No	6%	10%	22%	19%	14%	12%	8%	5%	3%	1%	0%	0%
Yes	6%	10%	22%	17%	14%	12%	10%	6%	3%	1%	0%	0%

(d)

Scribe?	Race
	Unknown	American Indian	Asian	Black	Black Hispanic	Hispanic	Multiracial	White	White Hispanic	Other	Patient refused
No	0%	0%	1%	30%	0%	0%	0%	63%	0%	4%	0%
Yes	0%	0%	1%	28%	0%	0%	0%	66%	0%	4%	0%

(e)

Scribe?	Ethnicity
	Hispanic	Not Hispanic	Patient refused	Unknown
No	4%	95%	0%	0%
Yes	4%	96%	0%	0%

(f)

Scribe?	Acuity
	ESI-1	ESI-2	ESI-3	ESI-4	ESI-5	Unknown
No	0%	11%	51%	35%	2%	1%
Yes	0%	12%	54%	32%	1%	0%